From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
4869@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: doom@kzsu.stanford.edu
Subject: bug#4869: 23.1.50; weak documentation of prefer-coding-system
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:41:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834op8avuh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50911051850l1bcec31dh71fed873fae68207@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:50:03 +0100
> Cc: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
>
> > Why not allow both? Some MULE functions allow a symbol and a string.
>
> Because it is at least a rudimentary type check? ;-)
There's no need for this type check because prefer-coding-system
already checks its argument with coding-system-p, which is the full
type check for coding systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 21:25 bug#4869: 23.1.50; weak documentation of prefer-coding-system Joseph Brenner
2009-11-06 1:47 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-06 2:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-06 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-07-13 14:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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